Sunday, May 12, 2024

Easy Sunday: So much to worry about, but let's not.

So much news.

Gaza war, campus demonstrations, local and national campaigns, inflation, Stormy and the Trump trials, Biden in Wisconsin, Kristi Noem shooting an untrained dog, prospective Vice Presidents pre-announcing they won't concede a 2024 election loss.

So much opportunity for worry and outrage.

Here is Mother’s Day present, a funny bit from YouTube. 

Patrick Stewart plays an angry British Prime Minister, outraged at the imposition on British sovereignty of the European Commission on Human Rights. What have they ever done for us?

Three and a half minutes.


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5 comments:

Phil Arnold said...

🤣🤣🤣

John F said...

Today's blog seems a reminder of what influence the UK lost with BREXIT, and the also the "success" of current political nationalism leading to a retrenchment tipping towards authoritarian leaders.

Michael Trigoboff said...

The sentiments expressed in this video would lead one to believe that there was no reason to support anything like Brexit. And yet, the British people supported Brexit.

Something must have been left out of this picture, perhaps something to do with arrogant uncaring virtue-signaling self-interested elites

Low Dudgeon said...

A well-wrought, amusing nod to the famous scene of fatuous complaining about the Romans in Monty Python’s “Life of Brian”. That said, unlike the Romans with the aqueducts, the roads, law and order, etc., in the case at hand, besides perhaps the accommodation with Northern Ireland, the ECHR cannot take credit for the other items listed, such as ending slavery and installing freedom of speech. Maybe I should listen to it again…..

Mike said...

Brexit was a lot like making Trump president: a case of mass insanity.

In 2016, Brexit passed by 51.9% of the vote. 72.2% of the electorate voted. Now 57% of British voters regret leaving the EU.

In 2016, 59% of the American electorate voted and 46% of them voted for Trump. This year we’ll see how many have come to their senses.